Prioresprouinciales in
prouincia Dacia is a Dominican chronicle
or rather a list on the first century of priors provincials in the Dominican
province of Dacia (c.1226-1308). It is written
by Bernard Gui OP around
1310 as part of his Tractabus de tribusgradibusPraelatorum in OrdinePraedicatorum. In one of the extant manuscripts,
Bernard’s list is prolonged to 1328, and so covering a total of nine Dacian
provincials. For each provincial the list gives a short presentation, mainly
with the years of election and absolution.

The Dacian part of the chronicle is
preserved in a number of manuscripts, of which the Codex Cracoviensis
and the Codex Ruthenensis (both now kept in ArchivumGeneralisOrdinisPraedicatorum(AGOP), Rome, as XIV A 2 and XIV A 3 respectively) are
the most commonly used. Especially a third manuscript, kept at the University
Library of Barcelona (no. 218, p. 119), is, however, of great interest, as it includes
the above-mentioned addition from 1308 to 1328.

Bernard’s
chronicle of the Dacian provincials was first published by J. Quétif & J. Echard in Scriptoresordinisfratrumpraedicatorum vol. I
in 1719 as part of their ‘BernardiGuidonisHistoriaOrdinisDominicanorum’ based on
the Codex Cracoviensis. The Ruthenensis-version
was published by Baroness EdleFrederikkeWedel-Jarlsberg in her impressive - although rather
erroneous - pioneer work on La Province de Dacia from 1899. After a
visit to the Dominican Archives, Karl-HenrikKarlsson included the Codex Cracoviensis
in his publication of Scandinavian-related material in the AGOP,
HandlingarrörandeDominikaner-Provinsen Dacia, from 1901. Almost a century
later, Simon Tugwell OP in 2000 published an edited
version of the text based on four manuscripts, including the Codex Ruthenensis and the Codex Barchionensis,
as ‘Bernard Gui on the
provincials of Dacia’ inArchivumFratrumPraedicatorum vol. 70, p. 88-89. Shortly after, Tugwell’s version was included in Per BjørnHalvorsen’s book on Dominikus
(Halvorsen 2002, pp. 248-249). The present
presentation of Prioresprouinciales
in prouinciaDacie is
based on the CodicisRuthenensis,
-Cracoviensis, and -Barchionensis
as reproduced in the above-mentioned publications, provided with explanatory
comments on their internal variations.

This
is the first translation of the chronicle into Danish, which aims to make it
available to a larger Danish audience than hitherto.

[1]The Codex Barchionensis has a slightly
different version: »SecunduspriorfuitfraterAynundus,
qui non diuitiusstetit in
officio. Fuit(autem)absolutus in capitulogenerali.«,
autem being added over the line.

[2] All
the versions used by Tugwell have the number M.CC.XXXV.added
in the margin after »..generali«.

[3] Again,
the Codex Barchionensis has the addition »Tertius(prior)fuit...«,
prior being added over the line.

[4] All
the versions used by Tugwell have the number M.CC.LIIII. uel LV. added in the margin after »..annodomini«.

[5] Again,
the Codex Barchionensis has the addition »Quartus(prior)fuit...«,
prior being added over the line.

[6]The Codex Barchionensis
has a slightly different version: »Quintus (prior)fuitfraterNycholaus
(...) et factusestpenitentiarius...«, prior being added
over the line.

[7]Again, the Codex Barchionensis
has the addition »Sextus(prior)fuit...«, prior being added over the line. The
Codex Ruthenensis has the name Oliuerus.

[12] The
whole addition »Hic obiitNesvik
in officio (...) modicum post absolutionem« is
only found in the margin of the Codex Barchionensis
after »..MCCCVIII.«
written with a different hand than the rest of the text.